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So how do you like the new BMW 7 Series? Actually, its Lexus‘ latest flagship, the ’07 LS going on sale this fall. It will be available in two wheelbases, the bigger one measuring nearly 203 inches long. While its profile and tail owe more than a bit to BMW Bangle-ism, the tech list puts both the 7 and the new Mercedes S-Class back on the truck. The all-new 4.6-liter V-8 has both port and direct fuel injection for better power and economy. Lexus claims 380 horsepower and 370 pound-feet, for a mid-five-second 0-60 mph time and a combined EPA mileage figure in the mid-20s. An eight-speed automatic helps things. “That’s right – eight. We’re one up on them,” Toyota COO Jim Press said, wryly referring to Mercedes‘ seven-speed automatic.

You can hit the ignition button with the new smart key card still in your wallet. Combined with “the finest leather and polished wood on cars,” according to Press, are a 19-speaker Mark Levinson system with a hard drive that’ll hold 4,000 songs, optional business jet-style reclining rear massaging lounge seats in the long wheelbase version, a climate control system that measures your body temp as well as the interior’s, and Toyota’s Intelligent Parking System that’ll parallel park the LS (but you have to keep your foot on the brake for it to work). Lexus will show off the car’s passive and active safety systems at Geneva, and the 600h, a V-8/hybrid version with the power of a V-12, at the New York show.

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